The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Hernexeos (zongertinib) for adults with unresectable or metastatic non-squamous non-small cell lung cancer whose tumors have specific HER2 ...

A refined base-pair editor limits unintended neighboring DNA edits while maintaining strong correction of disease-causing mutations. The technology could advance treatments for cystic fibrosis and ...

Neuroscientists discover that Rett syndrome mutations cause a leaky brain via overexpressed miRNA-126-3p, pointing to a new therapeutic target for vascular repair.

In a study published in the journal Nature, researchers from the Center for Genomic Regulation (CRG) and the Wellcome Sanger Institute have discovered that mutations affect protein stability following ...

Scientists studying how microbes evolve have long assumed that nearly all new genetic mutations get passed down at a predictable pace and usually without either helping or hurting the microbe in ...

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